A painstaking perfectionist, Alban Berg (1885–1935) created a small but impeccable body of orchestral works that opened up new possibilities for later composers. In arrangements by John Rea, the ...(Read More)

Retiring from a six-decade career as one of the world's most esteemed classical pianists, Alfred Brendel has returned to poetry, his other passion. Read in German in his rather soothing voice, ...(Read More)

This volume of varied works by Italian–American composer Anthony Louis Scarmolin (1890–1969) begins with a dance from his opera The Caliph (1948), set in the time of Haroun-al-Rashid, the ...(Read More)

These three previously unreleased live recordings from the 1950s feature the great Franco-Belgian conductor André Cluytens at the helm of the Orchestre National de France. Emil Gilels is the soloist ...(Read More)

Set to a text by the French dramatist and poet Paul Claudel, Arthur Honegger's stormy, seven-part La Danse des Morts ("Dance of the Dead") forms a dialogue between mankind and God. The first ...(Read More)

Had he only written his motets, J.S. Bach would still be known to us as one of the greatest composers of all time, and this 2010 recording by the Bach Sinfonia is an excellent demonstration of this ...(Read More)

In the early 1980s, Bernd Glemser won 17 major competitions in a row, including the Cortot, the Rubinstein, the Tchaikovsky, the Busoni, and ARD competitions; over the years, this artist's intuitive ...(Read More)

Already possessing 16 Grammys spread over a host of categories, Béla Fleck moves between genres effortlessly; four years after The Imposter, Fleck is again composing for orchestra, with a ...(Read More)